LiquidA series of glasses of transparent liquids is in front of you: but which will quench your thirst and which will kill you? And why? Why does one liquid make us drunk, and another power a jumbo jet? Sometimes dangerous, often delightful, and always fascinating, discover the secret lives of liquids, from one of our best known scientists.

green grass and colourful characters

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Kurt had made extravagant claims about their family history

Page after page of bone-chilling admissions

can old wounds heal

a small child was kidnapped from a Lincolnshire beach

detailing the campaigns

The thought of the publicity - and some remuneration - delights Hoynes

at a scale and speed that the world has never seen

the fighting retreat in the Philippines that forced the Japanese to take 140 days to accomplish what they had expected would take 50